UN Women’s Rights Committee Highlights
Romani Women’s Issues in Macedonia On 20 February 2006, the Roma The Committee expressed specific concern In their rural women, as well as ethnic minority women, in particular Roma and Albanian women, and to enhance their enjoyment of human rights through all available means, including temporary special measures”; girls living in rural areas and to reintegrate them into the educational system”; situation of rural women, as well as of ethnic minority women, in particular Roma women, in the areas of education, health, employment and participation in political and public life, and of the efforts of the government to eliminate discrimination against these women” as well as “concrete projects directed at Roma women under the Decade of Roma Inclusion 2005-2015.” After welcoming legislative changes taken to all forms of violence against women, including domestic violence, recognizing that such violence is a form of discrimination and constitutes a violation of women’s human rights under the Convention”; against women, so as to ensure that perpetrators are effectively prosecuted and punished, and that victims receive adequate protection and assistance”; highlight the unacceptability of all forms of violence against women and that it aim such efforts at law enforcement officials, the judiciary, health providers, social workers, community leaders and the general public.” In the run-up to the review, the RSC, the ERRC and OSI, (ERRC) |
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